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EGI-InSPIRE

www.egi.euEGI-InSPIRE RI-261323European Geosciences Union

General Assembly 2012, Vienna

European grid services for earth science

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Steve [email protected]

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European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2012, Vienna

European Grid Infrastructure

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EGI Ecosystem

EGI.eu (not-for-profit org)• Established February 8th 2010• Central policy & services• Sustainable, ~20 people• Based in Amsterdam, NL• Partners provide services

EGI-InSPIRE project• 4 year project, 25M EC funds• 50 project partners



VOs, VRCs and partner projects

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• Virtual Organisations: rules defining people & resources• VRCs are self-organised (virtual) research communities

which give individuals within their community a clear mandate to represent the interests of their research field within the EGI ecosystem.

• Current EGI VRCs: (http://www.egi.eu/community/vrcs/)– WeNMR - Structural biology– LSGC – Life sciences– HMRC – Hydro-meteorology– WLCG – High energy physics NEW!– CLARIN/DARIAH – Humanities (with a Letter of Intent)

http://www.egi.eu/community/vrcs/



EGI and the Earth Sciences

– ES Community in EGI-InSPIRE – Sustainable services for ES

– Participation in User Community Board (UCB)

• Synergy with other communities• Requirements gathering• Contact Horst Schwichtenberg or

Monique Petitdidier for further info.

– http://www.euearthsciencegrid.org

– ES Teams in 25 European and related countries and beyond

• 12 Virtual Organisations related to Earth Sciences

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operations-portal.egi.eu/vo/usersMetrics



EGI: strategy for 2020

• Pillars of the strategy:1. European-wide coordination and interaction with research

communities and national resource infrastructure providers

2. Coordination, maintenance, operation and delivery of an open uniform European-wide federated production infrastructure

3. Developing and promoting technologies for federating new resources

4. Supporting the integration and operation of scalable interdisciplinary Virtual Research Environments personalised to each research community

http://go.egi.eu/EGI2020

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EGI activities: forums, workshops, VTs and TFs

– Forums• Every 6 months, around 500 people meet to share knowledge and plans• Keynotes, presentations, workshops, training, demonstrations, posters

– Task Forces• Federated Clouds• MAPPER• Identity

– Workshops (face-to-face and also ‘webinars’)• Integration of complex scientific workflow systems with EGI’s services.• Research Infrastructure interested in adopting EGI’s operational tools to

support their own distributed production infrastructure• Science Gateways Workshop

– Virtual Team (VT) projects – 3- 6 months (with NGIs)

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Technical Forum TF12 - Prague

– Theme of Technical Forum in September (17th – 21st):• “Developing an open and sustainable EGI ecosystem to support open science in the

digital European Research Area.”

– 5 tracks:1. Operational services

Operational services used by EGI to deliver a federated infrastructure composed of national resource providers

2. Physical Infrastructure servicesWork of technology providers and platform integrators to provide generic infrastructure services that can be integrated into virtual research environments upon which research communities depend

3. Virtualised Resources: challenges and opportunitiesWork of technology providers, platform integrators and platform operators of the grand challenges that relate to the integration of virtualized resource

4. Virtual Research EnvironmentsResearch communities are seeking to establish their own virtual research environments with their own resources and operating their own customized services through the work of platform integrators and platform operators

5. Coordination and CommunicationFocus on reaching out to communities and partners across the ecosystem

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VRCs – VREs & EGI

EGI Community

Platform

EGI Collaboration

platform

EGI resources(clusters, storages,...)Dedicated or shared resources/platforms

(e.g. Clusters; EC2, PRACE, XSEDE)

Research facilities (e.g. detectors, sensor

networks)

VMVM

VM

SWVM

VMSW EGI Infrastructure platform

DB

DB

Virtual Research

Environment

Created by a project such as CLARIN, ELIXIR,

LifeWatch, ...

Virtual Research Communities



Services(Applications & data)

Anatomy of a VRE

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Service access (Science gateways - portal, desktop and mobile)

Off-the-shelf and custom VM images

Domain specific and generic data

repositories

Off-the-shelf and custom applications

Service integration(workflows)

EGI support

EGI support

EGI support

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EGI support:Service access

• Catalogue of existing solutions– http://go.egi.eu/sciencegateways

• Gateway components repository– SCI-BUS portlet repository

will be used (see MoU)

• Plan: “How-to” documentation– Develop an EGI science gateway primer

(through a new EGI Virtual Team project and [email protected])

• Portal & gateway workshops– CF & TF– Portal workshops by NGIs– Community workshops on portals

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http://go.egi.eu/sciencegateways

https://documents.egi.eu/document/1009

https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Virtual_Team_Projects




EGI support: Cross cutting support

• Applications Database (EGI software catalogue)– Stores information about any EGI software– Tags:

• Organise software into clusters

– Subscription:• Join an item/cluster as supporter

(developer, operator, expert)

– Notifications:• To get informed about changes

– Web gadgets:• Embed customised lists of software into your website

– Write API Planned• Itegrate the catalogue with the EGI platform (e.g. Info system)• Integrate the catalogue with other catalogues

• Training Marketplace– Advertise and search for events, materials, online courses– Web gadgets:

• Embed customised lists of software into your website

• Events– Community and Technical Forums (Call for TF2012 co-located events is open!)– Topical workshops (hosted by NGIs)

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http://appdb.egi.eu/

http://training.egi.eu/



EGI support: Service development and operation

• Established & evolving processes from various EGI(-InSPIRE) stakeholders:

– EGI Operations– EGI Technology– NGIs, VRCs, EGI.eu– Pojects (e.g. BioVel, Scalalife, ...)

• But the EGI platform is about to change:– Services will run in Virtual Machines

• EGI Strategic Plan; EGI Platform Roadmap

– Developers & operators will need new support mechanisms:• VM image repository• VM information system• VM monitor with helpdesk integration• ...

EGI Federated Cloud Task force EGI Infrastructure platformJoin as user community!

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Conclusions

• EGI is more than a production infrastructure:– A framework for sharing and innovation– A forum for communication and collaboration

• Earth sciences research community has strong grid history– Involved from the start of grid developments– Many grid-based applications, research and publications (~40)– http://www.euearthsciencegrid.org

• Earth Science community key part of future EGI Strategy– EGI Strategy is aligned with EU 2020 strategy inc. Innovation Union – EGI will support and partner various ESFRI projects and researchers– EGI will develop requirements with technology developers & providers

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EGI-InSPIRE

www.egi.euEGI-InSPIRE RI-261323European Geosciences Union

General Assembly 2012, Vienna

Questions?

[email protected]

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See you at the EGI Technical Forum 2012,Prague, Czech Republic between 17–21 September

